Word: beers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, reasoned the Queens, the government was really trying to eliminate competition against government beer. Determined to protect their pin money, 300 women, some with babies on their backs and all armed with sticks or pick handles, stormed the Cato Manor beer hall. They snatched glasses out of the men's hands, smashed barrels, poured hundreds of gallons of government beer on the ground. When the police arrived, they set after the cops with sticks and stones...
...riots quickly spread to the Asian quarter in Victoria Street. There, less than a mile from the $60 million beach front reserved for the whites, 800 women besieged another beer hall, while at Cato Manor the mob of rioters swelled to more than 3,000. When men were seen joining the women, the police decided to open up with their Sten guns. Four Africans fell dead; 24 more were injured badly enough to be taken to the hospital...
...imitation-brick siding of the ramshackle frame building is nailed a beer sign with the legend: LUTHJEN'S-DANCING FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY...
...race but a circus." Three hundred thousand spectators flock to Le Mans, spend more than $1,000,000 on other amusements as the sports cars roar over public roads through the 24-hour grind. They roam through 500-odd fair stands, quaff more than 100,000 liters of wine, beer and soft drinks, watch professional wrestling matches just 50 yards from the track, ogle strippers and snake dancers, cram all-night dance halls and, when they run down, catch a few winks in 20,000 sleeping tents booked to capacity at $5 a tent...
...curious, the idle, or the drizzle-beset are invited to an introductory meeting Wednesday, July 1, at 7:00 p.m. in the CRIMSON building, 14 Pympton St., where the summer editors will dispense free words and liquification (beer and cola...